In addition to the other great comments and advice that have been posted, you might want to review the "Database Compatibility Technology for Oracle" document from EnterpriseDB.
http://www.enterprisedb.com/solutions/oracle-compatibility-technology
http://www.enterprisedb.com/solutions/oracle-compatibility-technology
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Jack Christensen <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/09/2015 06:33 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
Temporary tables will be in memory unless they overflow work_mem and we do support unlogged tables and tablespaces which you could stick out on a ramdisk if you want.I would suggest not putting a table space on a ramdisk. According to the docs this risks corrupting the entire cluster.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/manage-ag-tablespaces.html
Jack
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